Abby Elliott Quotes

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

I'd always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was very little. I don't know why.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.